ERCOT’s Board of Directors unanimously approved two transmission projects intended to ease congestion and reliability concerns in South Texas.

The Texas PUC agreed with a recommendation by staff that it open a rulemaking proceeding to transfer some oversight of smart meter data to ERCOT.

A standing-room-only crowd got a glimpse of the grid of the future  at the  Energy Bar Association Annual Meeting.

MISO and the SPP Seams Steering Committee have ended months of uncertainty by agreeing to a second joint system study.

Panelists discussed improving the transmission interconnection process at the Energy Bar Association’s Annual Meeting.

The MISO-OMS 2016 Survey found that plant retirements could cause a generation shortfall as early as 2018 in MISO, 2 years earlier than previously expected.

FERC OK'd the CAISO plan to temporarily alter its market rules in response to natural gas pipeline restrictions stemming from the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage facility.

PJM members approved a task force seasonal capacity charter to study how resources could be incorporated into Capacity Performance.

FERC reassured LS Power  that its plan to base some of its interstate administrative and operational activities in its Austin, Texas, office won’t trigger commission jurisdiction over ERCOT.

Generators and transmission operators voiced frustration to FERC about delays and a lack of clarity in interconnection processes.